Could Bob Barr’s Run as Libertarian Doom McCain?

Once more the elitist still believe that a voter is a mind numb robot and they are going to cast a ballot for McCain if Bob Barr isn't in the race just like the other side will proclaim that Ralph Nader will lampoon Barack Obama's chance of getting elected.

As per this article if Ron Paul were not in the primary McCain by caveat would have earned that 35 million. I respect George Will as a man and columnist but in this column he is quite the buffoon.

The reason why Bob Barr could get enough votes to scare the elite is because the elite have been exactly what they believe themselves to be ELITIST !!!

People don't trust the two party system, at least the people that think for themselves don't, and therefore we will either vote for an individual which best represents our views but we won't hold our noses to vote for the lessor evil in any election.

1. Could Bob Barr’s Run as Libertarian Doom McCain?

Former Republican Rep. Bob Barr is seen as the Libertarian Party’s most likely presidential candidate — and he could wind up torpedoing John McCain’s White House hopes.

“Given the recent fundraising prowess of a kindred spirit — Ron Paul's campaign for the Republican nomination siphoned up $35 million, mostly off the Internet — libertarians are feeling their oats,” political analyst George F. Will writes in Newsweek.

“Come November, Barr conceivably could be to John McCain what Ralph Nader was to Al Gore in 2000 — ruinous.”

Nader was a weak third-party candidate and won only 2,882,955 popular votes nationwide, but 97,488 of them were in Florida — where, because of Nader, George W. Bush won by 537 votes, Will notes.

Shane Cory, the Libertarian Party's executive director, “thinks his party is upwardly mobile,” Will writes.

“In 2004, its presidential candidate received just 397,265 votes, a mere .32 percent of the national popular vote…

“But in no state was the Libertarian vote larger than the winning candidate's margin of victory. This year, however, Cory thinks the party can far surpass its best national performance — 921,299 votes in 1980.”

Cory and Barr say the party almost certainly will be on the ballot in at least 48 states.

Republican consultant Craig Shirley recently wrote: “This Libertarian thing may be bigger than anyone is foreseeing right now.”

Barr left the GOP in 2006 over what he called bloated spending and civil liberties intrusions by the Bush administration.

A former U.S. attorney in Atlanta, Barr served eight years as a Republican congressman from Georgia before losing his seat in 2002 after a redistricting.

A Barr run for the White House would be handicapped by “John McCain's handiwork,” Will added.

“One wealthy libertarian would give $1 million if the McCain-Feingold law regulating political participation did not ban contributions of more than $28,500 to national parties.

But Will concludes: “If libertarian voters cost McCain the presidency, that will be condign punishment.”